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flophouse

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈflɒphaʊs/Part of speech nounSorted efhloopsuStarts with FEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a cheap lodging house

Word origin

From flop + house, originally hobo slang, presumably from slang flop (“lie down to sleep”).

Used in a sentence

  • In one of [Cincinnati’s] slum districts stands the Silver Moon, a “flop house” (i.e., a house where the occupants are “flopped” out of their hanging bunks by letting down the ropes).
  • We even visited some drunken seamen in a flophouse on Mission Street that she knew; they offered us whisky.
  • He was born out back of a twopenny flophouse in what the wags called “The Holy Land” […].

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